Quotes about Contentment

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

That which you are looking for, you're living with.

Twopence a week, and jam every other day.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

I shoulda taken ya into town, Missie. Gave ya a chance to see the outside world again, to visit an' chat. I missed yer need, Missie, an'-an' ya never complain-jest let me go on, makin' dumb mistakes right an' left. A sorry-looking bunch of cowpokes, a work-crazy husband an' a baby who can't say more than 'goo' ain't much fer company. Yet ya never, never say a thing 'bout it. I love you, too, Missie-so very much.

I hope I never git so land hungry and money crazy thet I have no time fer God, family, or friends.

The absence of an inner conflict is one of life's richest blessings," the pastor also had said. "And it comes only from the hand of God.

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.